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Connect and Collaborate

Connect and Collaborate Anywhere with Digital Tools

Connect and collaborate anywhere, anytime, and any place. During this workshop you will explore Hangouts, Calendar, Keep, Docs, and Presentations. You will participate in a Mystery Hangout and work on several collaborative projects together. Come join the fun and learn how easy this is to do in your classroom. Session Journal

Level: Intermediate Theme: Empowered Teachers, Applied Digital Skills

Google Hangouts

Google Hangouts is a communication platform developed by Google which includes messaging, video chat, and VOIP features

Ways to Use Google Hangouts

Google Calendar

Google Calendar is a time-management and scheduling calendar service developed by Google.

Google Keep

Google Keep is a note-taking service developed by Google. Launched on March 20, 2013, Google Keep is available on the web, and has mobile apps for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. Keep offers a variety of tools for taking notes, including text, lists, images, and audio.

Google Docs

Activites

Did you know in Google Docs you can work collaboratively with your peers and students. There are many ways to do this, but let's start with something simple. Click on 'fun' and let's get started.

Join the fun!

Cool Ways of Using this Tool

20 Google Doc Tips
Template Gallery
Voice Typing
Add-Ons
Offline Access
Email as an Attachment
Version History

Use comments to work with other on Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides.

Add a Comment
Assign or Tag someone in a comment
View All Comments
Delete a Comment

Google Presentations

Classroom Activities

Things to Try

Add Interactivity

Narrate your own slides with Screencastify or Loom
Add Links to other Docs, Slides, and forms
Edit pictures

Vitual Field Trips

20 Virtual Field Trip Ideas and Activities for your Classroom

Collaborative Tools

LucidpressPerfect for print. Dynamic for digital.

Storyboard That: The World's Best Free Online Storyboard CreatorCreate storyboards with our free storyboard software! Filmmakers, teachers, students, & businesses all love using Storyboard That to easily create storyboards and comics online.

Flipgrid. Ignite Classroom Discussion.Flipgrid empowers social learning in PreK to PhD classrooms around the world. Use video the way your students do.

Soundtrap - Make music onlineMake music online together by recording and using loops.Invite friends to collaborate. It's free and no download is required. Works on Mac, Windows, Chromebooks, iPhone, Android and Linux.

Animaker, Make Animated Videos on Cloud for freeAnimaker is an online do-it-yourself (#DIY) animation video maker that brings studio quality presentations within everyone's reach. Animated Videos, Done Right!

Features - Padlet Backpack

Coggle - Simple Collaborative Mind MapsCoggle is a collaborative mind-mapping tool that helps you make sense of complex things. Create unlimited mind maps and easily share them with friends and colleagues.

Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen SharingZoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done. Zoom is a private company headquartered in San Jose, CA.

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